My son, my sweet little son decided he wanted out on his due date, at midnight on the 16th I was just getting ready for bed and my water broke, To be sure I woke and told hubby and then laid down for 10 mins like we're told by the OB to make sure it's your waters breaking and yep, sure enough within 2 minutes of laying down they gushed again. We phoned the OB and she told us to head on in to the hospital and get checked over and admitted even though I wasn't feeling any contractions at that moment. It's a good thing we were getting ready anyway like she said because I hung up with her and seconds later my contractions started, probably about 7-10 mins apart which quickly got to every 3-5 mins apart once we were in the car. We got to the hospital parking lot and started the short walk into the ER as it was after hours and the main entrance to labor and delivery was closed at 1am. Well we tried, I got 2/3 of the way to the ER doors, stopping every few minutes as a contraction hit, not painful at that point they just glued me to the spot, doubled over until it eased up 30 seconds later. which was just enough time to cross a small road and get a few feet before another hit, thankfully the security guard saw us on his first pass around the parking lot and when he made his second sweep he brought out a wheelchair and took us up to L&D. Hooked up to monitors for half an hour we could see the peeks and falls of contractions (well I could feel them anyway) and we could see the trace on Aiden, they did tests to see that it was my water that broke and after a quick exam (2cm dilated) we were admitted and taken to my delivery room. at 3cm I was given an epidural whilst the anesthesiologist was there doing one in the next room, which helped for a while but by the time I was 7cm dilated it was not helping as Aiden's head pushed down it showed that the epidural hadn't taken in some areas and I felt everything. Well turns out it didn't have a chance to be topped up as I went from 7 to 10cm (well 13cm to fit his head LOL so fully dilated) very quickly and I was ready to push... The staff however weren't ready, my OB still wasn't there at 7.15am ish and I was already pushing. she got there around 8.30 and Aiden was born at 8.34am!
Introducing Aiden Owen Steib, 8.34am, 7lbs 14oz, 19.25 inches!
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